The Cambridge ms (University library, Gg. 4.27) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                  He pokede ion & seyde slepist þou
                                
                                  Herdist þou euere swich a song er now
                                
                                  Lo swich a copil is a-mong hem alle
                                
                                  A wylde fyr mote on here bodyis falle
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                                  Ho herkenyth euere swich a ferly thyng [folio 190a] 
                                
                                  Ȝa þey schal haue þe flour of ille endyng
                                
                                  This longe nyȝt þere tydis me no reste
                                
                                  But ȝit no fors al schal ben for the beste
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                                  ffor Iohn seyde he as euere mote I thryue
                                
                                  Ȝif þat I may þe wenche wele I schryue
                                
                                  Sum esement has lawe I-schapyn vs
                                
                                  ffor Iohn þere is a lawe þat says þus
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                                  That ȝif a man in a poynt be a-greuyd
                                
                                  That in a noþer he schal ben releuyd
                                
                                  Oure corn is stolin schortly it is non nay
                                
                                  And we han had an ille fit al þis day
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                                  And syn I schal han non a-mendement
                                
                                  A-geyn my los I wele haue eysement
                                
                                  By godys sale it schal non oþer be
                                
                                  This Iohn answerde Aley a-vise þe
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                                  The mellere is a perlyous man he seyde
                                
                                  And ȝif þat he out of hese slep a-breyde
                                
                                  He myȝte vs don bothe a velanye
                                
                                  Alyn answerde I counte hym not a flye
                                  Line 4192 
                                
                                  And vp he sterte & by þe wenche he crepte
                                
                                  This wenche lay vp ryght & faste slepte
                                
                                  Tyl he so nygh was er sche myghte aspye
                                
                                  That it hadde be to late for to crye
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                                  And schortely for to seyn þey were at on
                                
                                  Now pley aleyn for I wele speke of ion
                                
                                  This Iohn lyth stylle a furlong wey or too
                                
                                  And to hym self he makyth reuthe & woo
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                                  Allas quod he þis is a wekede iape
                                
                                  Now may I seyn þat I is but an ape
                                
                                  Ȝit hath myn felawe sumwhat for hese harm
                                
                                  He has þe melleris douȝtyr in hese arm

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Title: The Cambridge ms (University library, Gg. 4.27) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 120
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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